Yesterday, Sunday 3/13, Mike Bracken and I made a loop through the Castalia area, Pipe Creek and 
Sandy Ridge.  Sandy Ridge was very productive and is listed below.  Of note is the Sandhill Crane in 
the SW corner of the main pond and the Rough-legged Hawk we observed hunting in the fields of 
the housing development immediately to the east.

There was a good variety of dabbling ducks at Castalia Pond and in flooded fields south of Castalia 
on Maple Avenue including: Pintail, Wigeon, Gadwall, Tundra Swans, and an Eastern Bluebird and 
Cedar Waxwings.

Pipe Creek had large numbers of diving ducks including: Ring-necked, Lesser Scaup, Canvasbacks, 
Redheads, Ruddy Ducks, Buffleheads, Hooded Mergansers and Horned Grebes.

Total species count for the day was 50. 

Location:     Sandy Ridge Reservation
Observation date:     3/13/11
Number of species:     37

Canada Goose     187
Mute Swan     2
Gadwall     26
Mallard     29
Redhead     31
Ring-necked Duck     43
Lesser Scaup     37
Bufflehead     8
Hooded Merganser     27
Red-breasted Merganser     2
Ruddy Duck     3
Horned Grebe     13
Turkey Vulture     7
Bald Eagle     2
Northern Harrier     2
Red-tailed Hawk     1
Rough-legged Hawk     1
American Coot     33
Sandhill Crane     1
Killdeer     1
Ring-billed Gull     34
Herring Gull     3
Mourning Dove     4
Belted Kingfisher     1
Red-bellied Woodpecker     2
Downy Woodpecker     1
American Crow     6
Black-capped Chickadee     7
Tufted Titmouse     3
White-breasted Nuthatch     3
American Robin     134
European Starling     188
Northern Cardinal     1
Red-winged Blackbird     15
Common Grackle     13
American Goldfinch     3
House Sparrow     1

This report was generated automatically by eBird v2(http://ebird.org)

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